Nicole Schultheis, JD, has been a live-in cook, hospital pathology lab worker, nanocrystal grower, history research assistant, creative writing teacher, blue jeans sales person, waitress, appellate law clerk, trial lawyer and head of her own firm, conference and retreat organizer, 10-minute playwright, web content writer, award-winning community cookbook co-editor (The Montessori Family Heritage Cookbook, Morris Press 2004), children’s choir organizer, contributor to legal tomes (West, Thomsen/Reuters, AAJ Press), National Institutes of Health contract staff writer, ESL scientific editor, college text editor, federal jobs search consultant, and executive narrative writing coach. She edits briefs and ghostwrites books. Her pieces have appeared in the Maryland Daily Record, Brevity, Vestal Review, in the poetry anthology, Life In Me Like Grass On Fire (MWA Books 2011), and in Freshly Squeezed: A “Write Here, Write Now” Anthology (Apprentice House 2008), for which she created an overly-long video trailer. She is the 2010-2012 President of the Maryland Writers’ Association.